Ricardo García Posada Airport
El Salvador, Chile — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from ESR to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from El Salvador.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 794 km | 1h 24m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 1,430 km | 2h 12m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 1,765 km | 2h 37m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 2,369 km | 3h 22m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 2,705 km | 3h 47m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 3,481 km | 4h 45m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 4,069 km | 5h 28m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 5,579 km | 7h 21m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 5,903 km | 7h 45m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 5,930 km | 7h 47m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about ESR
What is the airport code for El Salvador?
Ricardo García Posada Airport uses the IATA code ESR and the ICAO code SCES. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Ricardo García Posada Airport?
It sits at 26.3111° S, 69.7652° W, serving El Salvador in Chile, at an elevation of 5,240 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
